Text description provided through the architects. In the southwestern component of the city of Kyoto, the site is situated where a panoramic view of the Daigo Mountains suddenly stretches into the distance after passing a residential domain with a mix of old and new small houses. A young relative who had moved from one place to another in Japan in order to settle here. The vast landscape of the mountains and the intimate domain for the circle of relatives. These two things, differing in scale and nature, can be constantly related to each other and shape family life. That’s when I saw the perspective of living in this position.
In this project we try to do it through the “shape” of space. The living room, the center of the house, has a right-angled isosceles triangle floor plan and a single-sided triangular roof is placed on top of it. It opens towards the mountain. diversity in plan and narrows towards it in segments. On the other hand, other rooms, such as bedrooms, bathrooms, and garage rooms, are contained within a two-story L-shaped volume along the isosceles, and the living room opens onto a segment toward the inner corner of the volume.
The shape of the area creates a variety of places to build a slow relationship with the mountain and the family circle. For example, the family circle’s dining table, situated at the 45-degree corner of the isosceles triangle, is a shallow area and faces the mountains through a giant window, so the presence of the mountains is felt. strongly during the meal. The spiral staircase, located in the inner corner of the L-shaped volume, gives a dominant impression of a variety of mountains beyond the horizontal window that does not stop from the living room at the lower end, but when going up the stairs, it feels like you are entering a series of three-dimensional internal areas.
The degree of connection between the living room and the other rooms on the present ground frequently varies depending on the shape of the triangular pyramidal void created through the triangular roof. They are more connected in the inner corner of the L-shaped volume, while the area at both ends of the volume is more independent. On the other hand, the presence of the saw, which disappears from sight and awareness in the inner corner of the L-shaped volume, is reaffirmed at both ends of the volume. , where it extends beyond the giant openings. In addition, those two extremes look at each other through the windows and create a sense of distance between family members.
Sometimes you feel that the diversity of the mountains is as close to you as your circle of relatives, and you feel that your circle of relatives is as far away as the diversity of the mountains. The living room can exist simply as a shadow of such a relationship. I believe that living space can become a new state today, when the sense of distance between people, cities and nature has diversified thanks to the experience of virtual generation and viruses.
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